Sugar Time Series- PLANTING
Mar 24, 2015 08:07:24 #
Sugar cane is planted in late summer- traditionally, whole stalks are planted, end to end, and, like bamboo, each stalk segment will sprout three to five new plants for each of the next three or four years. Whole stalk planting is done by hand and is expensive. In the last few years, mechanical planting of billets- uniform lengths of cane stalk about 24 long- is gaining favor but billets, because of the open, cut ends, are susceptible to stalk rot.
Mar 25, 2015 08:19:28 #
If I'd thought about it, I would have assumed that sugar plants came from seeds. Thanks for increasing my store of knowledge.
Mar 25, 2015 09:20:10 #
DragonsLady wrote:
If I'd thought about it, I would have assumed that sugar plants came from seeds. Thanks for increasing my store of knowledge.
Actually, sugar cane is a grass and does produce viable seeds but, as a seed, it is a perennial and unreliable. That is, one seed = one stalk and the stalk is harvested. One planted eight foot cane stalk may produce 25 stalks each year for four or five years.
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